135: What is a Micro Family Office

For more than 1,400 years, the world’s wealthiest families have used a structured system to preserve, protect, and grow their wealth across generations. From the major-domos of the 6th century to the Rockefellers in the 1880s to the more than 10,000 family offices operating today, this model has quietly powered the longest-lasting fortunes on earth.

But here’s the part nobody talks about:

If you have between $1 million and $30 million in net worth, you’ve been excluded from this system entirely.

I’m Christopher Nelson, and over the past 12 years I’ve studied how ultra-wealthy families manage their money. I used those insights to build my own Micro Family Office—a system that now generates over $200K of annual investment income without selling any assets.

In this video, I’ll show you exactly what a Micro Family Office is, why the upcoming $124 trillion wealth transfer makes this more important than ever, and how people with $1M–$30M in assets are using this framework to take control of their financial future.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

• Why millions of new millionaires are managing their wealth like amateurs

• How family offices evolved—from medieval estate stewards to modern wealth engines

• Why traditional financial advisors aren’t built for people with $1M–$30M

• The three wealth management structures—and where the Micro Family Office fits

• How the four phases of the WealthOps Framework work: Architect, Build, Run, and Succession

• How to use fractional advisors, modern tools, and lean operations to replicate a $100M+ family office

• What it actually costs to run a Micro Family Office (mine was ~$25K last year)

• Who this model is perfect for: tech professionals, founders, equity earners, and anyone stepping into real wealth

• Why professionals are ditching traditional advisors and becoming the CEO of their own wealth

If you’ve ever felt like you’ve outgrown generic financial advice… or that your assets deserve a professional-grade system… this video will shift how you think about wealth forever.

And if you want help building your own Micro Family Office, join me in our free monthly live workshop. In two hours, I’ll walk you through the entire Architect phase so you leave with your Legacy Statement, Investment Thesis, and Wealth Structure fully designed.

→ Register at wealthops.io/go

If you’d prefer to keep learning, watch the next video in the series to dive deeper into Evergreen Portfolios and wealth operating systems.